Month: January 2015

At our last meeting our ‘show and tell’ introduced a number of neat little projects. Among them was a little robot that can draw fancy designs on paper. The robot used what is called ‘Turtle Graphics’ and so therefore the robot itself could be called a turtle. To top it off, the turtle used the groovy ESP8266 Wireless transceiver module […]

Do you remember the LOGO programming language? It’s all about learning programming through a connection to the visual: drawn shapes. Usually that’s images drawn on a screen by a virtual turtle, but some people were lucky enough to have a real physical robot turtle to run around and draw pictures on paper on the ground. Well, I’ve always wanted one of […]